A Civil War-period coat worn by a nurse — a woman from a prominent Mathews County family who some believe was the only woman to be commissioned as a captain in the Confederate Army — is among the nominees for Virginia's Top 10 Endangered Artifacts program.

The police officer who shot and killed a 23-year-old man during an early-morning police chase on July 4 had opened fire once before on another suspect, Newport News Police Chief Richard W. Myers said Wednesday.

The stepfather of a man killed by police earlier this month in Southeast Newport News spoke out Wednesday about the shooting, saying his son wasn't a violent man and was working to turn his life around.

Officials have reopened the eastbound tunnel of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel after a crash involving a tractor-trailer and a car caused fuel to spill, according to Virginia State Police and the Virginia Department of Transportation.